Congratulations!
It's a miserable drive, but with nature healing as it is, San Francisco is going to be back to its normal flow control-constrained self soon if it's not already. So I would drive to LAX given those choices. Having been based in both and having done a long drive to LAX, myself.
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Sweet! Welcome aboard!
Exactly. It’s one of those things that signals you aren’t from SoCal. Kinda like calling it “Cali”, Californians don’t do that or “San Fran”
LCR sounds like it should be more of a thing than I actually hear about from anyone who works there. What’s the scoop? Asking for reasons
You're on call 24 hours a day for your reserve stretch (usually 4 days). Call out is 14 hours from notification to report.
Long Call Reserve, this is a good destination
. I’ve only been on LCR for about 3 weeks due to consolidation issues and by some miracle getting an open flying line (secondary line) for June and July so I can’t speak to how LCR works but they typically try and assign known flying to LCRs first and you can also pick up flights the day before. It’s possible you might be able to do it from JNU (I don’t know the daily schedule).You might be surprised, LCR can only be assigned to those who bid for it. Have you been to ground school already? Sounds like SFO is what er’body is getting out of the gate right now with a sprinkling of LAX, but definitely take that with a grain of salt.
Definitely commuters to those bases.
It seems on the face of it that ANC LCR would be the way to go out of JNU, but everybody local just ends up doing SEA so they probably know something I don’t. Maybe just so much easier to get a line out of SEA.Long Call Reserve, this is a good destination
You might be surprised, LCR can only be assigned to those who bid for it. Have you been to ground school already? Sounds like SFO is what er’body is getting out of the gate right now with a sprinkling of LAX, but definitely take that with a grain of salt.
Also SAN-MRY/STS, both of which have $15-30 bus options that run every so often all day and take you straight to SFO. FAA ATC folks at SFO lived in both locations and took those shuttles all the time, some have frequent user options. If you get stuck going to SFO, that is always an option. These services, like the Monterey Airbus (used them all the time when I didn't want to drive SJC-SFO-SJC twice to take my gf to work), also connect SFO/SJC for half the price or so as well. SJC also has a free bus that leaves every hour (twice an hour during a small window fo the day) to the Santa Clara Caltrain station and another that goes to Milpitas BART. When I fly from SJC and drive myself, I just park in the university housing areas with no overnight restrictions then cross the street to Caltrain and take the free bus to/from the terminal. Just don't get bipped. (Not an issue when your car screams "I'm poor", but otherwise hide your belongings).
